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Is Hinduism Pagan ?
The author asks whether Hinduism is Pagan. He argues that it is not under the historical, pejorative meaning, but that the Atman doctrine fits the broader neo-pagan sense, viewing Brahman…
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F*ck Your Algorithm, My People Are Still Colonised
X.T.M argues that a Google Gemini summary on French West Africa repeats colonial language, framing Islam as an obstacle to a civilising mission. He calls this Islamophobia by default and…
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Pakistan, the deciding hinge between the West & CRINK
X.T.M argues that Pakistan is one of the most dextrous middle powers, sitting at the hinge between the West and the China-Russia-Iran bloc. He says its position, professional military and…
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Lord Zoroaster’s Fire Still Burns
X.T.M uses a Molla Nasreddin cartoon of Zoroaster to argue that Persian customs survived Islamisation. He holds that Iran is a civilisation-state, not a regime problem, so Western pressure is…
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A Pakistani Wedding That Refused Not to Be Indian
X.T.M reads the wedding of Nawaz Sharif’s grandson, with Indian designers and Indic styling, as evidence of Indic soft power. He argues that Pakistani weddings show continuity of a subcontinental…
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How will the Iranian Regime Survive? By Becoming Persian & Crowning a Pahlavi Queen
X.T.M argues that the Iranian regime can survive only by de-ideologising: Islam should become a civilisational substrate with Persian features. He cites the English Restoration as a model, and says…
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India’s Eastern Face: Where Civilisation Dissolves Instead of Ending
X.T.M argues that India’s eastern edge differs from its hard northwest, northern and southern boundaries: it thins instead of ending. He says Indic culture spread to Southeast Asia through merchants…
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South Asia Is an Ugly Postcolonial Euphemism
X.T.M argues that South Asia is a bureaucratic euphemism from American area studies, not a neutral term. He holds that India is the old name for the whole subcontinent and…
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Greenland, Trump, and the Comfort of White Intermediaries
X.T.M argues the Greenland debate is really about a pattern across settler-colonial societies, where Indigenous political power is mediated by white-presenting figures who are legible and safe to Western capitals,…
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New DNA research paper sheds light on proto-Dravidian and Indus Valley Civilization genetics.
A self-described non-specialist reads a new European Journal of Human Genetics paper on the Koraga, which proposes a distinct ‘Proto-Dravidian’ ancestry from around 2400 BCE, and asks what it implies…
